Radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed has been banned from setting foot on British soil again, the Home Office said today.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke used existing powers to exclude Bakri from the UK.

The so-called "Tottenham Ayatollah" left Britain six days ago on what he described as a holiday to see his mother in Beirut.

A Home Office spokesman said: "The Home Secretary has issued an order revoking Omar Bakri Mohammed's indefinite leave to remain and to exclude him from the UK on the grounds that his presence is not conducive to the public good."

Meanwhile, Jordan will ask Britain next week to extradite the radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who has been described as Osama bin Laden's "spiritual ambassador in Europe," Interior Minister Awni Yirfas said today.

"We will contact the British government ... to seek his extradition," Yirfas said.

* A terrorist suspect being held by British forces in Iraq without charge or access to a court, today lost his High Court test case over his detention.

Hilal Al-Jedda, 47, who has dual British and Iraqi citizenship, had asked two judges in London to rule that his detention was unlawful and breached his human rights.